Nashville Mayor Megan Barry, center, speaks with some people in the crowd at Nashville's MLK Day youth rally Jan. 15, 2018, outside Jefferson Baptist Missionary Church in North Nashville.(Photo: Brad Schmitt / The Tennessean)

Barry concluded her minute-long appearance on stage by calling for grace for the “dreamers,” children of immigrants who’ve arrived without documentation into the U.S. Trump has been resisting efforts to find a path for legal citizenship for those children.

“What we need is all of you in this audience to make sure that you're standing up,” Barry said. “And that starts with making that our kids who are our DACA recipients get to stay here and dream here, and that's all up to us.”